NB Podcast: Nets Mention Biden Scandals, But Buried by Trump Tsunami

June 28th, 2023 11:44 PM

Associate editor Nick Fondacaro and I reunited for Wednesday’s show to break down the NewsBusters team's new time counts of network coverage (or lack thereof) on the Trump indictment and allegations of impropriety from the Biden family. While the Biden numbers surprisingly aren't zero, the Trump numbers still dwarf them like a skyscraper-sized tsunami.

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CNN Loves Biden's Economy, America Not So Much

June 28th, 2023 10:10 PM

Wednesday’s CNN This Morning commended Biden’s supposed economic improvements, citing numerous infrastructure bills, now dubbed Bidenomics. Unfortunately for them, their poll showed 66 percent of Americans disapproved of Biden’s handling of the economy, and 76 percent considered it in poor shape.

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ABC Steers Clear of Whistleblower Speaking Out on Hunter Biden Probe

June 28th, 2023 12:40 PM

On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, ABC’s World News Tonight and Good Morning America kept their viewers in the dark on behalf of the Biden administration and Biden family as the IRS agent alleging misconduct in the years-long Hunter Biden investigation has revealed himself for TV interviews on CBS and the Fox News Channel.

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Heinrich, Nelson Welcome New KJP Stand-in by Grilling Her on Hunter

June 27th, 2023 6:09 PM

Sadly depriving the public of the comically partisan White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates, the Biden regime trotted out Principal Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton on Tuesday to fill in for Karine Jean-Pierre. In turn, Dalton faced some hardballs about the Biden economy, a faux-hardball from a Team Biden apple polisher, and new queries about Hunter Biden’s life of corruption.

PBS’s Washington Week Showers Hunter, Presidential Pop With Sympathy

June 27th, 2023 5:41 PM

The PBS weekly political roundtable Washington Week on Friday used Hunter Biden’s surprise appearance at a White House state dinner held for India’s prime minister to actually linger over the Hunter Biden controversy, who attended the dinner just days after news of his plea agreement with the Department of Justice. But the panelists didn’t express shock at the appearance of…

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Psaki Sneers: 'I Don't Spend Much Time On Right-Wing Websites'

June 27th, 2023 1:45 PM

On Morning Joe, Jen Psaki thought she was being cute. So much so that she actually chuckled as she said, "I don't spend too much time on right-wing websites."

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Lone Soldier: Wegmann Presses KJP on Hunter Attending WH State Dinner

June 27th, 2023 1:13 PM

Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann closed out Monday’s White House press briefing as the only reporter in the press corps to grill the ever-inept Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre over what’s, at minimum, a questionable lack of ethics by President Biden having son Hunter attend last week’s state dinner for the Indian prime minister with Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Column: Where Is the Biden-Bashing ‘Tell-All’ Book?

June 27th, 2023 7:56 AM

It’s easy to miss some dramatic differences between the Trump years and the Biden years. Take, for example, the “tell-all books,” either written by journalists who are granted access to insiders or books written by the insiders themselves. By this time in the Trump term – the summer of 2019 – we were 18 months into “tell-all season.” But no Biden insiders are writing a “tell-all book.” We’re…

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NBC Only Gingerly Confronts Growing Doubts About Biden 2024

June 26th, 2023 7:25 PM

On Sunday, NBC’s Meet the Press addressed a growing lack of confidence in President Biden’s leadership ability. While Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) dodged confronting the trend to favor a standard Biden campaign speech, moderator Chuck Todd followed up with a mild question about Hunter Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland attending the same state dinner for India's prime minister.

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NBC News Poll Finds Low Confidence in President Biden’s Mental Fitness

June 26th, 2023 4:12 PM

On Sunday morning’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd explained the findings of a recent NBC News poll on voter satisfaction regarding the current state of the country and President Biden’s current job rating and perceived competency. These numbers did not look good for Biden, especially the percentage of voters with concerns that Biden did “not have the necessary mental and physical health…

AG Details Fiery Lawsuit Against Biden’s ‘Vast Censorship Enterprise’

June 25th, 2023 6:44 PM

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is attempting to hold the Biden administration accountable for alleged collusion between the government and Big Tech to censor Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 election season, calling it “the worst First Amendment violation in this nation’s history.”

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PBS: NPR Legal Scribe Claims Hunter Plea 'Somewhat Harsher' Than Usual

June 24th, 2023 8:58 PM

Hunter Biden, the controversial son of the president, pled guilty to two federal charges of tax fraud and a felony charge of gun possession on Tuesday, and that evening’s taxpayer-funded PBS News Hour proved itself eager to move along, dismissing Republican accusations of a cushy plea deal from his father’s Department of Justice, appealing to emotion by painting President Joe Biden as…

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Media: What Biden Scandals?

June 24th, 2023 4:00 PM

Back there in the ancient age of November, 1986, my younger self, then a Reagan White House Associate Political Director, was in the Oval Office with Political Office colleagues and President Reagan. 

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Morning Joe—Vote For 'Constitutionalist' Biden Not 'Seditionist' Trump

June 23rd, 2023 4:30 PM

On Morning Joe, Jon Meacham, the historian and occasional Biden speechwriter, makes an explicit political pitch calling on voters to support Joe Biden over Donald Trump, casting it as a clear choice between a "constitutionalist" and an "insurrectionist and seditionist."